« Women lag far behind men in access to land, credit and decent jobs, even though a growing body of research shows that enhancing women’s economic options boosts national economies.
Macroeconomic policies and policy-making can make the connections to gender equality.
The multiple barriers that prevent women from seizing economic opportunities must be dropped. »Reference : UN Women

To manage our projects we refer to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women UN WOMEN , more specifically to the CEDAW convention.

According to some estimates, women represent 70 percent of the world’s poor. They are often paid less than men for their work, with the average wage gap in 2008 being 17 percent. Women face persistent discrimination when they apply for credit for business or self-employment and are often concentrated in insecure, unsafe and low-wage work.

Eight out of ten women workers are considered to be in vulnerable employment in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with global economic changes taking a huge toll on their livelihoods.